NCT03456011

Battlefield Acupuncture With Sodium Hyaluronate Injections

Battlefield Acupuncture (BFA), an Adjunct Treatment During Sodium Hyaluronate Injections for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Pilot Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Brooke Army Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study evaluates pain relief and subsequent range of motion changes combining battlefield acupuncture with sodium hyaluronate vs local anesthetic and sodium hyaluronate

Detailed description

Sodium hyaluronate is FDA approved for knee osteoarthritis. It is a widely used treatment for this condition. This does provide immediate pain relief and is often used in conjunction with lidocaine and ropivacaine to both improve pain relief and treatment tolerance. battlefield acupuncture has been showing promise as an adjunct pain relief treatment option. If used during intra articular visco supplementation knee injections, this may provide pain relief and positive changes in range of motion without the need of local anesthetic being injected into the joint space.

Conditions

• Knee Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Battlefield Acupuncture	Battlefield Acupuncture gold semi permanent needles

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-23
• Primary completion: 2018-10-31
• Completion: 2019-01-31
• First posted: 2018-03-07
• Last updated: 2018-03-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States